Funding Status: Accepted

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Career and professional development is a core part of pursuing higher education and the Career & Internship Center strives to provide a wide range of services and resources to meet the needs of all UW students. Profile photos on platforms such as LinkedIn and Handshake are a crucial part of online profiles as they offer a glimpse into learning more about candidates, however, access to professional headshots for these profiles is limited for many young professionals, including University of Washington students. While student groups and campus partners can hire a photographer to host professional headshot events for students, these events have limited availability and constrain students' choice and ability to see, edit, and receive their photos. As such, providing an accessible and user-friendly headshot photo service for students is important as it furthers student engagement and confidence in career development. We believe the Iris Air Booth is the best product to meet students' professional headshot needs. The Iris Air Booth is a portable, free standing, photo booth specializing in taking professional headshots. This booth features wrap-around LED lighting, professional quality camera equipment, a large touch screen monitor, a proprietary user interface and app, custom filters, posing tips, and delivers JPEG files (approx. 3 MGS.) electronically via email to users.

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Unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV, aka drone) data collection and photography are core techniques in remote sensing: the precise measurement of environmental data to inform management decisions. However, amid growing industry demand for UAV operators, academic interest in applications of UAV data and photography, and growing enrollment in remote sensing courses at UW, most students cannot access professional UAVs. UAVs are generally cost-prohibitive for personal ownership, and the few labs at UW that own UAVs are reluctant to loan highly mobile instruments. There are two UAVs available for student use housed in Earth & Space Sciences, but they are at least five years old and lack precise positioning and camera systems. Likewise, the Husky Flying Club provides racing drones, but these are unsuitable for research applications. The current state is undesirable for three reasons: students are unable to pursue projects that utilize UAV data and photography, instructors cannot demonstrate state-of-the-art UAV techniques in coursework, and students lose an opportunity to gain training in piloting UAVs, as well as analysis of self-acquired data, before entering the workforce. The equipment we outline in this proposal has been selected to address each of the above disadvantages. We include a heavy-lift enterprise UAV, the DJI Matrice 300, as well as a lightweight, operator-friendly UAV, the DJI Mavic 3E. We also include two specialized cameras: the FLIR Vue TZ20-R thermal camera, and the Zenmuse L1 LiDAR/RGB unit. This equipment serves a variety of users, from senior researchers with UAV experience to undergraduate students exploring UAV applications.

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The UW Geospatial Club will maintain a calendar for the equipment, including check-in/check-out dates for scheduled flights. Users will be able to view this calendar on the Geospatial Club website and email club officers with a request to check out their desired equipment for a given period.

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The UW Food Pantry creates a wide variety of signage, flyers, and other printed materials made by or for student volunteers, student staff members, and UW community members accessing the pantry for food assistance. Some of the signage that the UW Food Pantry creates on a regular basis: - Food Safety Guides for volunteers and pantry visitors: in coordination with UW Environmental Health and Safety - Food Recovery Signage: educational materials for food and ingredient sourcing, waste minimization guides, etc. - Food Drive Coordination Signage: flyers posted around campus advertising RSO involvement with the food pantry's mission via food drives, signage posted above food drive bins in selected UW buildings, impact posters, etc. - Other Miscellaneous Pantry Signage, including but not limited to postings that detail: quarterly open hours, operations guides and volunteer training manuals, quarterly impact posters, recipe guides, posters for visitors to learn about other food/financial assistance programs in and around campus/Seattle, etc. Currently, we outsource our pantry signage printing to the office for student life. This presents us with issues in terms of flexibility since weekly hours adjustments, recipe guides, food safety, and training materials often can change on a weekly basis. Since we are student run and our hours differ and thus we don't always have access to the student life office printers, an on-site color printer would provide us with better flexibility in our daily operations and take the burden off the office for student life to provide us with this service.

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The School of Art+Art History+Design woodshop supports students in the Art and Design divisions in processing materials to meet their program goals. Industrial Design students use the woodshop to process a broad range of different materials in their iterative design processes. One material in particular presents some challenges to the traditional woodshop range of tools. Urethane and polyurethane high density foam (often referred to as tooling board or the brand name Renshape) is becoming the material of choice for student work prototyping. While the tablesaw and the bandsaw have no trouble cutting and shaping tooling board the high speed steel knives of the jointer and the planer are quickly dulled by the abrasive, dense qualities of these foams. There exists a new design of cutting head for jointers and planers that greatly increases the utility of these machines to surface a variety of materials while upgrading the surface quality and precision of the work. Instead of a series of 3 straight knives on a planer or jointer the new design uses segmented carbide cutters arrayed in a spiral or helix pattern around the cutterhead. The carbide is much more resistant to the dulling quality of the abrasive tooling board. Being able to use the jointer and the planer to prepare the tooling board will upgrade student work quality and facilitate a faster process to prepare a blank for the CNC mill. Additional benefits are a safer shop environment through reduced machine noise and reduced mess through smaller chip size.

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The A&A Machine shop is the primary shop used by research groups, capstone teams, and RSOs (including but not limited to SARP, DBF, SEDS, and Superbike), but it is open to all UW students. The shop currently contains two out dated manual mills, which are used extensively by these groups for part fabrication. The shop also contains one old, functioning CNC machine, which also experiences heavy usage during the academic year, despite how difficult it can be to interface with. These older machines make it more difficult to train new users and slow the progress of experienced machinists, compared to if they were using a newer machine. These difficulties ultimately result in longer lead times for parts, which also reduces machine access to users. Additionally, steeper learning curves and difficulty to machine parts can result in students feeling discouraged from learning how to use the equipment. These issues can hinder all groups. The best solution is purchasing two new two-in-one CNC milling machines that allow the user to perform either manual mill tasks or CNC operations. The newer equipment will be easier for students to learn to use and make machining parts easier. The two-in-one machines will also save money and floorspace, rather than purchasing and installing both new mills and separate CNC machines.

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Users can schedule a time-slot to use the equipment online through the UW CORAL system. Appointments are available during all shop hours, with the exception of timeslots booked for trainings. CORAL is the current system in place for reserving shop equipment.

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The problem that UWROV seeks to solve are the issues presented by our limited collection of tools and safety equipment. Our current inventory is incomplete, with some items outdated or unusable. These issues restrict our ability to efficiently and safely manufacture our robot. We also have a large number of students who have little to no practical engineering experiences, but our lack of tools and safety equipment prevents us from providing learning opportunities.

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UWROV officers and highly-involved members have access to lab keys at any time needed, thus can use equipment whenever needed. Other members will have to coordinate with an officer or a trusted member to gain lab and equipment access.